I bought a V6 and I'm happy with it, but I did not realize it was ANSI and not ISO (or rather, I think I did not realize what it meant until assembly).
That said, I'm a programmer and I need the angle brackets easily accessible. Luckily, in the AZERTY mapping of the ANSI-104 layout, there's a key above Enter that is virtually useless to me as is (shown here as */μ). This is where KC_BACKSLASH would be on the QWERTY mapping.
However, I have been absolutely unable to find a normal way to remap it to both brackets (a key that exists in ISO but not in ANSI).
Here's ideally what I want:
- Pressing [this */µ key] gives me <
- Pressing SHIFT + [this */µ key] with Shift gives me >
Here's what I have tried so far:
- Microsoft's Mouse and Keyboard tool: doesn't recognize non-microsoft keyboards
- Microsoft's Powertoys tool: doesn't allow 2 shortcuts on the same key
- VIA: can only remap to ANSI keys
- VIAL: doesn't even recognize the device as-is, and throws a protocol error when sideloading the JSON.
- AHK: not ideal but yeah it works
I've only been able to make it work through AutoHotKey. I feel like VIA/L should be the normal solution here, but if so, I have not found how to make it work.
Was there a cleaner way?
EDIT: I was wrong, the "<>" key I was looking for does exist, and as u/PeterMortensenBlog on reddit and @saigot@lemmy.ca here pointed out, it is simply KC_NONUS_BACKSLASH, abbreviated NUBS in VIA.